Can't Remove Directory?

[Patrick Smith]

mascarasnake wrote:
> Have you tried a tab compete? ala:
>     sudo rm -r 434[TABtoCOMPLETEFILENAME]
> 
> Drew Lane wrote:
>> "ls -q" didn't show anything special, but "find . -ls" shows this:
>>
>> 476116   4   drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   Oct   4   23:07   
>> ./43480\

This ought to show you exactly what characters are in the filename:

	ls | od -c

You can also try

	mv *43480* goodname

although that won't work if there are weird characters in between the 
digits.